[at-l] The Birth of Cool & warning signs

[s.landis at comcast.net (Steve Landis)]

You titled your post "Birth of Cool" There's only one thing that I could 
possibly think of upon seeing that reference and I'm not alone - Google 
it.  The CD is on my shelf, Jim probably has it in vinyl or maybe a wax 
cylinder ;).
No, I sit corrected.  From his account it sounds like Jim was there.

Steve


Lilla Thompson wrote:
> Jeez, you guys are all so literal-minded.  We weren't talking about
> jazz, now were we?  The concept of "cool" as I understand it has been
> around a long, long time.  Maybe I should have taken Jim's assertion
> literally as well, but to me it sounded like saying I was a witness to
> the birth of evil (I wasn't though) 
> 
> Or maybe the sign in my neighborhood growing up that read: "Slow
> Children" was more apt than I thought... ;-)
> 
> Lilla  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: at-l-bounces@backcountry.net [mailto:at-l-bounces@backcountry.net]
> On Behalf Of Steve Landis
> Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 9:34 AM
> To: at-l@backcountry.net
> Subject: Re: [at-l] The Birth of Cool
> 
> Lilla Thompson wrote:
> 
>>I gotta ask Jim:  Where and when was the birth of cool, and who else
> 
> was
> 
>>attending?  Enquiring minds, and all...
> 
> 
> NYC 1949 Miles Davis with  Gil Evans, Kai Winding, Gerry Mulligan, Lee 
> Konitz, and Max Roach- I'm guessin' Jim wasn't there.
> 
> 
> Steve